When researching and developing operating systems, Microsoft is also studying at partition management technology. As known to all, the built-in disk management tool in inchoate Windows editions has many defects. For instance, in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, which are very familiar to many users, the built-in disk management tool can not shrink partition or extend partition; but in later released Windows operating systems like Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, those partition management functions are added, so it can be seen that Microsoft is carrying out further study in partition management area. Are users of Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 able to manage partitions better? No. Take Windows Server 2008 for example. Compared with Windows Server 2003 used by most Server users, great improvement has been made on Windows Server 2008, but the built-in disk management tool still has much limitation. No matter shrinking partition or extending partition, we can only operate at the tail end of partition, which make users fail to resize partitions and extend the unallocated space shrunk from the front partition to the hinder partition. This is the limitation. Therefore, users are forced to resort to the third-party partition magic to manage partition better.
Partition magic used in Server
Although much third-party partition magic helping users realize disk management emerges in the software market along with the rise of software industry, most partition magic is developed for common Windows operating systems. For Server operating systems which are very different from common operating systems in framework, the third-party partition magic compatible with them is hard to find, so even the simple partition management operation like resizing partitions is difficult for Server users. However, this situation has been changed. MiniTool Solution Ltd. has published the professional partition magic MiniTool Partition Wizard, which is specially designed for Windows Server operating systems. Among all editions, MiniTool Partition Wizard Server Edition runs perfectly in multiple Windows Server operating systems, aiding users in server partition management easily, of course, including resizing partitions. Then we'll demonstrate how to resize partitions in Windows Server 2008 with MiniTool Partition Wizard.
Resize partitions in Windows Server 2008
Please visit the website http://www.resize-partition.com to download and install MiniTool Partition Wizard. After that, launch the professional partition magic.
In this interface, select the partition that will be resized and click "Move/Resize" on tool bar to resize partition.
In this interface, we can drag the triangles at the two ends of Partition Handle to resize partition or input exact values in the textbox to set partition information, as the following picture shows.
Finishing the operation, click "OK" to return to the main interface.
In this main interface, we can see the selected partition has been resized and a pending operation appears in the left "Operations Pending" area. Now click "Apply" to accomplish resizing partition.
Through those simple operations, we can resize partitions in Server conveniently. We will not elaborate upon other functions of this partition magic, for users can get detailed information from the official website.